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Department of Economics hosting David Kaserman Memorial Lecture with Christopher Waller

On Friday, April 17, at 1 p.m. in Lowder Hall room 125-A, the Department of Economics will host the David Kaserman Memorial Lecture, a program in honor of the late David Kaserman. The lecture, titled “Outlook for the US Economy," which is free and open to the public, will feature Christopher L. Waller, an American economist and member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. 

Waller took office as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on Dec. 18, 2020, to fill an unexpired term ending Jan. 31, 2030. Prior to his appointment to the board, Waller served as executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis since 2009.

In addition to his experience in the Federal Reserve System, Waller served as a professor and the Gilbert F. Schaefer Chair of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. He was also a research fellow with Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies. From 1998 to 2003, Waller was a professor and the Carol Martin Gatton Chair of Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics at the University of Kentucky. During that time, he was also a research fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn. From 1992 to 1994, he served as the director of graduate studies at Indiana University's Department of Economics, where he also served as associate professor and an assistant professor.

Waller received a Bachelor of Science in economics from Bemidji State University and a master’s degree and doctorate from Washington State University.

Professor David L. Kaserman, 1947-2008, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and remained spiritually an East Tennessean his entire life. After working his way through college at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, he attended graduate school at the University of Florida, where he began a lifelong collaboration with Professor Roger Blair, an internationally recognized antitrust scholar.

Kaserman worked as an economist for the U.S. government at Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Trade Commission and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and served with great distinction on the faculties of the University of Tennessee and Auburn University, mentoring many younger economists. He published more than 100 articles, including influential papers on vertical integration and regulation in the American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Law and Economics and several others. He authored numerous books, including “Antitrust Economics” through Oxford University Press with Roger Blair and the textbook “Government and Business: The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation” through Dryden Press with John Mayo.

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